How to Decorate Your Home in 2022: 9 Free Tutorials

Learn easy DIY and MIY tips to give your home a fresh look with your own hands

For many of us, how we spend time in our homes has evolved over the last two years. While it's still our refuge away from the outside world, from WFH guidelines to isolation rules, since the start of the pandemic it's also been a place where we've spent more time than ever before.

Whether you're at home to relax or work, the way we decorate our spaces can have an impact on how we think and our well-being. We can use colors to enhance certain feelings, add decorative touches to imprint our own personality and make a space cozier, and optimize our lighting to reach certain moods.

If you want to refresh your home and make your spaces work for you in the year ahead, discover loads of DIY and MIY home decor ideas and tips with these free interior design tutorials.

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Colors, lighting, and furnishings

Interior Design Tutorial: How to Choose Your Color Palette

In any interior design project, the choice of color is extremely important as it will impact the entire look—from the materials to the furniture.

To help you choose colors to tailor your spaces, interior designer Vasso Asfi (@studiolav) shares some basic principles and advice—from how to create a cozy atmosphere or ways to make a space pop, depending on what mood you're going for.

Interior Design Tutorial: Tips to Use Color in Your Home

Sticking to the color theme, in this tutorial interior decorator Sofía Saraví O'Keefe (@decolookbook) explains the 60-30-10 rule for interior design, and how a color palette is defined and applied. Tap on the "CC" button for English subtitles.

DIY Tutorial: How to Easily Paint a Shelf Using a Stencil

When you've got your walls painted, add more homey touches by creating decorative pieces to hang on them. Joanne Cordon (@joannecondon) is a furniture artist and expert upcycler who loves having fun with DIY to create unique pieces for the home, giving old furniture a new lease of life.

In this tutorial, she'll teach you how to build and decorate a small hanging shelf for plant pots, trinkets, photos, and more. The simple process is ideal for beginners and would make a fun and colorful addition to any room.

Interior Design Tutorial: 5 Tips for Decorating with Vintage Furniture

Another tip: use vintage furnishings to create a unique space that stands out in a world in which many homes look very alike. We've all got that old dresser from a grandparent or a garage sale bedside table that we don’t quite know how to use, as it doesn't mesh with the rest of the house.

Enter furniture restoration experts Celia and Marc (@celia_y_marc), the duo behind design studio Antic&Chic. In this tutorial, they share ideas to create unique decorative pieces from your old furniture to achieve spaces full of style and personality. Tap on the "CC" button for English subtitles.

Interior Design Tutorial: How To Light A Space

The architecture and interior design studio Nook Architects (@nookarchitects) explains how to illuminate a public or private environment in the best possible way, to enhance a space and even to positively affect our mood.

Interior Design Tutorial: How to Make Your Bedroom Cozy

Transforming your bedroom into an environment that's warm, cozy, and peaceful can help get a better night's sleep. And, while it might seem like a big project, it doesn't have to be—it’s really a matter of adding a few simple details here and there.

Eva Sonaike (@evasonaike_01) is the creative director and founder of her self-named London-based interiors company specializing in luxury home textiles and soft furnishings with colorful African designs. In this tutorial, she shares tips to up the cozy factor in your bedroom.

Interior Design Tutorial: Tips and Materials to Create a Lovely Home Office

For many of us, it looks like working from home (WFH) more regularly is here to stay—but it's not without its challenges.

Whether you're working from your kitchen or you've got a spare room, a home office is much more than a table with a dining chair. In this tutorial creative director of Masquespacio, Ana Hernández (@masquespacio), teaches you how to transform your spaces. She shares tricks to reduce distractions and how to set up a professional-looking backdrop for video calls.

Finishing touches

Interior Design Tutorial: Learn How to Decorate a Room with Plants

Plants have the power to transform cold rooms into warm, cozy, and vibrant places as if by magic. Landscape Gardener and Content Creator Daniel Virgnio (@danielvirgnio) is the man behind Verde Terapia (Green Therapy).

In this tutorial, he shares his secrets to adding energy and color to your home using plants, taking volumetry and harmony into account. Tap on the "CC" button for English subtitles.

Weaving Tutorial: Macramé Carpet Knot

One way to craft wall-hangings that'll add natural touches to your home is using macrame. In this tutorial, textile artist and macrame specialist Belén Senra (@belensenra) shows you how to make carpet knot by following the loom tapestry technique.

She demonstrates the simple and versatile technique, step by step, which you can use to create your own designs. Tap on the "CC" button for English subtitles.

Ready to give your home a new look for a new year? Check out all of Domestika's online interior design courses. And for more great tips on how to revamp your spaces, keep an eye out on the Architecture and Space section of our blog.

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